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The 50 Greatest Documentaries was a Channel 4 television programme which was broadcast on 9 October 2005 and was narrated by British actress, Zoë Wanamaker. The number one position was held by the on-going Up Series. The list was compiled based on the nominations submitted to Channel 4 by a series of factual filmmakers, amongst who included Paul Watson, Nick Broomfield and Molly Dineen. 1 Up Series 1964 United Kingdom 2 Touching The Void 2003 United Kingdom 3 Bowling For Columbine 2002 United States 4 The World At War 1973 United Kingdom 5 Capturing The Friedmans 2003 United States 6 The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off 2004 United Kingdom 7 Life on Earth: A Natural History by David Attenborough 1979 United Kingdom 8 Fahrenheit 911 2004 United States 9 When We Were Kings 1996 United States 10 Faking It 2000 United Kingdom 11 Hoop Dreams 1994 United States 12 This Week: Death on the Rock 1988 United Kingdom 13 The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife 1991 United Kingdom 14 One Day in September 1999 Switzerland / Germany / United Kingdom 15 Fourteen Days in May 1987 United Kingdom 16 The Family 1974 United Kingdom 17 Night Mail 1936 United Kingdom 18 The Nazis: A Warning from History 1997 United Kingdom 19 Super Size Me 2004 United States 20 The Death of Yugoslavia 1995 United Kingdom 21 Walking With Dinosaurs 1999 United Kingdom 22 Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer 2003 United Kingdom 23 Beyond the Clouds 1994 United Kingdom 24 Omnibus: Cracked Actor 1975 United Kingdom 25 The Secret Policeman 2003 United Kingdom 26 QED: John's Not Mad 1989 United Kingdom 27 Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days 1989 United Kingdom 28 The Thin Blue Line 1988 United States 29 Wife Swap 2003 United Kingdom 30 A History Of Britain 2000 United Kingdom 31 The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear 2004 United Kingdom 32 Spellbound 2002 United States 33 The War Game 1965 United Kingdom 34 Signs of the Times 1992 United Kingdom 35 An Impossible Job: Graham Taylor 1993 United Kingdom 36 Woodstock 1970 United States 37 People's Century 1995 United Kingdom 38 Beneath the Veil 2001 United Kingdom 39 Feltham Sings 2002 United Kingdom 40 The Human Body 1998 United Kingdom 41 World in Action: In the Interests of Justice 1985 United Kingdom 42 Driving School 1997 United Kingdom 43 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 United States 44 Nanook of the North 1922 United States / France 45 Home From the Hill 1987 United Kingdom 46 Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark 1969 United Kingdom 47 Fred Dibnah: Steeplejack 1979 United Kingdom 48 Malcolm & Barbara: A Love Story 1999 United Kingdom 49 The Fog of War 2003 United States 50 Louis Theroux: When Louis Met Jimmy 2000 United Kingdom
